Nine-Tailed Fox

Xiao Huo stuck out a finger and poked Ghost Tree's shoulder. Seeing the corners of his mouth cramp, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Don't say you like me, I wouldn't believe it even if you beat me to death. With your temper, if you like me, you will definitely not Will help me bear another man's child."

"Oh? Then what do you think I should do?" Ghost Tree rubbed his chin with interest.

Yun Xiaohuo thought for a while, and replied: "You will definitely kill that man and that child first, and then imprison me in the black ghost forest to accompany you."

"Wrong! I won't even give you fruit. Where did you get the child?" Ghost Tree laughed loudly, shaking his head and said, "Little fox, why do you have to ask this?"

"You ghost tree has never been in a loss-making business, and now you help me for no reason, how dare I not ask a few more questions?"

"Don't worry, don't you still owe you two things? I will automatically put it into there. How can I count as a loss? Just returning the 500-year Taoism of the Green Snake to you is the second thing."

"Old ghost, sometimes I really don't understand you."

"I don't understand you even more! You are so smart, but you put yourself in such a field, you have lived for two thousand and five hundred years in vain!"

"Am I even worse than nothing?"

"I persuaded you at the beginning, who said 'If he dares to lose me one point, I will also pay him ten points'! Now? People are going to peel you off, why didn't you give him his black heart? Take it out?"

"It's just a little short." Yun Xiaohuo compared her little fingers, shrugged her shoulders and said casually: "But, I was still holding Jing'er in my arms, so I couldn't do it."

"It's useless!"

"I will not do it again."

"Really?" Ghost Tree cast a casual glance at Yun Xiaohuo.

"En." Yun Xiaohuo nodded without hesitation, her voice was still very soft, but her words were clear: "I have forgotten all about the past. Now I only know that I am a demon and he is a human being. He can skin me, and I can kill him, it’s no big deal. As for Yun Jing, he was born by me and has nothing to do with him.”

"Can you really let go?"

"I'm not in vain, and I'm not Xiaoqing. I'm made to live and die for a mortal. How can I be worthy of being the demon king of Yuyin Mountain?"

"Okay! This is the coquettish fox who dared to pee next to my tree root! Just say this to you, and I'll give you another thing."

After finishing speaking, the ghost tree's figure suddenly disappeared with a "bang", leaving only a scorching fire bead glowing faintly beside the bed where he had been sitting.

Yun Xiaohuo moved her buttocks, picked up the fire bead and pinched it to her fingertips, then smiled, "It's Huoliuli! The old ghost really has a lot of good things!"

Another ten days passed.

A young eunuch hurried into the Qianqing Gate with a letter in both hands. When he reached the gate of the Qianqing Palace, he suddenly stopped and walked up to the little bird respectfully. There's a letter."

Little Quezi's eyes lit up, she happily accepted the letter, and hurriedly stepped into the gate of Qianqing Palace and walked towards the Nuan Pavilion.

Ningshen incense is burning in the three-legged bronze incense tripod in the center of the warm pavilion. This is a spice prescribed by the imperial doctor. The stench of blood.

Little Quezi quietly walked to the side of the bed, and seeing Xuanyuan Jin lying on the bed with his eyes wide open, looking dull, he couldn't help sighing.

"Your Majesty, there is a letter from the Second Prince." He bowed down and said.

"Help me up."

Xuanyuan Jin, who was only wearing a pale yellow undershirt, sat up and leaned against the head of the bed, but during this movement, he had already coughed several times in a row, panting and his pale face flushed.

"Your Majesty, let's drink some water first." Little Quezi helped him back.

"No need." Shaking his head, Xuanyuan Jin took the letter paper, tore it open casually, took out the letter paper inside and flattened it, and read a few lines in a short while.

Putting the letter away, he said in a hoarse voice: "Hua Yi rescued that snake demon, but that monster no longer remembers him."

"What about the Second Prince?"

"He said that he will not leave him, so he cannot return to court for the time being."

"But..." Xiao Quezi was also anxious, the emperor had been ill all the time, and his complexion would not get better for a while, not to mention that the imperial doctor also said that the heart disease needed heart medicine, Xiao Quezi knew that the emperor's heart disease was Yun Xiaohuo, but it was a shame. They are all dead, who can come to the doctor?He had expected Xuanyuan Che to assist the government, but now even Xuanyuan Che couldn't come back.

"Little sparrow, pass on my will, let the third prince come back."

The third prince, Xuanyuanbei, led troops to garrison the border all year round, and was named the Great General of Dingguo by the former emperor.The three brothers have always been Xuanyuan Jin as the king, Xuanyuan Che as the assistant, and Xuanyuan Bei as the commander, stabilizing the country of Xuanyuan.

After the stern and cruel third prince came back, he would definitely investigate the matter of the emperor and the second prince thoroughly. How can we explain this?Little Quezi wailed again and again.

In the 11th year of Jialong, winter.

The emperor Xuanyuan Jin was bedridden in the deep palace to recuperate from illness and was unable to attend the court. At the right time, the third prince Xuanyuanbei of the Xuanyuan Dynasty returned to Beijing to temporarily act for state affairs, while the second prince Xuanyuan Che was named an idle prince, and there was no trace of his descendants after he went south.

Xuanyuan was already very unhappy to be brought back to Beijing from the frontier all the way, but when he learned that all this was due to the relationship between the two demons, he was so angry that his face turned black.

Can't catch Xuanyuan Che, but the emperor Xuanyuan Jin always stays in the Qianqing Palace, he broke into the Qianqing Palace without saying a word, trying to scold his useless brother, but he really came to the bed , Looking at Xuanyuan Jin with thin cheeks and pale complexion, the anger in his stomach disappeared.

"When did all the imperial doctors in the palace become worthless!" Xuanyuan Jin turned his mouth downwards, gloomyly glanced at the imperial doctor waiting beside him, and said sharply, "What are you doing?" To see a doctor for the emperor?"

"My lord, calm down! My lord, calm down!" The imperial doctor's legs gave way in fright, and he immediately knelt on the ground, "The emperor's illness is caused by depression, and I really can't help it."

"Impossible? Then what are you bastards doing? Drag them out and chop them up!"

"Hua Chi, lose your temper as soon as you come back, what does it look like?" Xuanyuan Jin woke up early, shook his hands and said, "I'm not dead, what are you doing to kill the imperial doctor? I know my illness well. You Let them go down first."

"Go away!" Xuanyuan Bei stared, and the crowd was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe, and walked out of the Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace silently.

"You are in the palace, not in the military camp, and you don't know how to control your temper." Xuanyuan Jin sat up with difficulty.

Xuanyuanbei picked up a cloak from one side and covered him, sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the emperor brother whom he hadn't seen for many years, and said sourly, "I haven't been back for a few years, what happened to you and the second emperor brother? In this way, no one can be found.”

"Hua Yi should be better than me."

"Is it okay if people don't know where they are going?" Xuanyuan Bei hummed, crossing his hands in front of his chest, "If the father, the queen and the queen know what you are like now, they will crawl out of the imperial mausoleum angrily!"

"Zhen...cough cough...cough cough cough" Xuanyuan Jin gasped for breath and coughed again and again, looking weak.

Xuanyuanbei patted him on the back in silence, and suddenly glanced at the fox fur hanging on the side, and after looking at it for a long time, he slowly asked: "Brother Huang, what is the matter between you and that nine-tailed fox demon?" What's going on?"

"Hua Chi, these days I've been thinking about whether I did something wrong." Xuanyuan Jin's eyes were lingering on that fox fur, just like the eyes on Yun Xiaohuo many years ago, tender and attached, as if glued I can't leave anyway, "During the few years when he disappeared, I thought he was worried about him. When I knew he was a demon, I hated him for being ruthless. Now that he is dead, I thought I could let go, but my heart hurts even more. Panic, like someone stole my heart away."

"Brother, he is a demon."

"I know." A warm smile flashed across Xuanyuan Jin's bewildered expression, "But I have lived with him for a year, how could the days and nights of this year be fake? In a blink of an eye, I saw Xiao Huo back then. It was in Hangzhou, and I was a carefree prince. I saw a man standing on a broken bridge with an umbrella on a sunny day, with long fiery red hair. At that time, I thought he was of Western Regions. I ran up to him and talked to him. He said his name was 'Yun Xiaohuo'. I saw his pretty face, and mistakenly took him as a girl's daughter disguised as a man. As a result, He gave him a hard look. In fact, when he was angry, he was not fierce at all, and he looked like a man with teeth and claws, but he was actually simple and direct..."

As soon as Xuanyuan Jin talked about Yun Xiaohuo, he was indecisive. Whether he fell into the memory or wanted to find someone to confide in the thoughts that had been pent up in his heart for these years, anyway, he would talk to the end endlessly until a living Yun Xiaohuo turned into a fox fur.

"I can't promulgate the imperial decree of concubine Shu as the empress. I thought that this empress was reserved for Xiao Huo. Why wait and wait, and my empress will become someone else? She has worshiped heaven and earth with me." He is the one who loves me! He is the only wife I believe in in my heart!"

"Concubine Shu gave birth to the eldest son of the emperor, so she should be the queen."

"The court ministers also said the same thing, but I just feel that it is my responsibility to leave an heir. I know that Xiao Huo must not like to see me favoring others, so before he came, I let the concubines sleep every day. In order to keep more heirs to silence the ministers. When he comes, I will release all the concubines who are not pregnant with the dragon species out of the palace, and only stay with Xiao Huo, just like in Fenghuang at that time. Like at the foot of the mountain, sleep together, eat together, just like ordinary couples, live a good life.”

"Brother Huang, he is a demon. Even if you can really be together, you will grow old, but he won't. How can you live a lifetime?"

"Yes, I will grow old, but he will not." Xuanyuan Jin said